For three! Ring it up!

[martymoose]

Looks like the three ball may be a little tougher if the playing rules oversight committee aprroves what the NCAA rules committee already has.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news?slug=ap-ncaa-3-pointline&prov=ap&type=lgns

Too bad Hafford burned a year by barely playing in that BSC tourney game at EWU two years ago. This rule wouldn't affect him since he was usually hitting his threes from about 26'. ;-)

 

[ManOfVision]

I think this is a good rule change. The current line is just too easy.

 

[Pounder]

From the article:

Committee chairman Larry Keating said two proposals were considered. The other would have moved the line to 20 feet, 6 inches, the same distance as international 3-pointers. Both are shorter than the NBA line, which is 23 feet, 9 inches at the top of the key and 22 feet at its shortest point in the baseline corners.

"We made it a point to come up with a distance that was correct for us and that didn't necessarily mimic the international line," Keating said.

Am I to take from this that they dismissed the international line because it's international? If that's true, that really does tell me how college rulemakers seem to SEEK distancing themselves from reality.

College ball is increasingly having a relevancy problem. There are ways to demonstrate that which are worse than this rule change- and complaining about adding lines while the women's committee doesn't make the same change is one proof of that- but advertising this doesn't help keeping players in college, nor does it help if you're trying to recruit against professional clubs in other countries.